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  • RE: Happy Easter

    Happy Easter to you and your family, Steve.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Best I can do while the coffee is perking, Emperor Palpitate.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    It was ton a typo, Steve.

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  • RE: patindex - search for either value

    In books online (under "LIKE Comparisons") I found no syntax to support an OR. Nothing under the index topics of PATINDEX or WILDCARD, either.

    ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v10/MS.SQLSVR.v10.en/s10de_6tsql/html/581fb289-29f9-412b-869c-18d33a9e93d5.htm

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  • RE: Creating Indices on Temp Tables from Stored Procedures

    Sometimes I read comments on these forums, and others, where people are recommending very elegant solutions to problems, however, they don't always take in to account the amount of time...

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  • RE: Creating Indices on Temp Tables from Stored Procedures

    Kramaswamy,

    I sincerely hope that you didn't take any of my comments as belittling your competence. Nothing of the sort was intended. My last...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    In short, table variables are handled VERY much like temp tables. A couple of major differences follow:

    Table variables aren't subject to logging.

    Statistics aren't kept on table variables, which...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    WayneS (4/1/2010)


    I've got a theory about Paul... I think he has cloned himself. He then sends his clone out to "go forth and find all good sql nuggets", and then...

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  • RE: Wildcard range search

    You've been going without sleep... haven't you?

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    I thought "hamster" was a collation.

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Dangit... I hoped to be one-up on Gail just once before I die. Of course if F and E were reversed, there would have been no right answer.......

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    E

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  • RE: Wildcard range search

    Paul, I'm curious. I understand right-padding the high value with char(255) to simulate a wildcard, but why add CHAR(1) to the low value?

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  • RE: Wildcard range search

    Actually, I like this approach. The only thing I would suggest is to tweak it to accept character strings with a length greater than 1.

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  • RE: Pass multi values into procedures

    Oooooo.... Erland Sommarskog,

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